Red Sox fan here. This dude is amazing. Great leader, great contact hitter, and possibly the greatest defensive catcher to ever play the game. Much respect for Yadi
Even if you're not a STL fan (which I am not) you still have to give molina the respect he is due with being the best defensive catcher in MLB, The guy is BEAST!
Yadi is so good at his position it reminds me of Ozzie. To me, he is simply just better than any other catcher and is in his prime now. Ozzie had that Wow! factor and so does Yadi. Go Cards!
best catcher of all time... his track record speaks for itself. 2 rings, 3 penants, has made the playoffs in almost every year in the majors.. not to mention all the personal achievements of multiple gold gloves and a silver slugger award..
Richard Angevine Johnny Bench: 2 rings, 4 pennants, 10 Gold Gloves, 2 MVPs, '76 World Series MVP, 2 Home Run titles, 3 RBI titles, Most RBI in the decade of the '70s... But, Yadi is one of the greatest catchers in MLB history. Possibly the third best, behind Bench and Rodriguez.
As growing up watching him he used to not be able to hit but now look at his batting average he has a great batting average and yes I go to most games and yadi's manager lives on my street so I have met him a couple of times at our annual year block party
ontop of that fact molina has been in the bigs 4 years longer then posey. when posey came up mid season of 2010 half the season he won rookie of the year for a little more than half a season played, and took the giants to the world series. trust me posey when its said and done and you compared awards and who has the most hardware posey will dominate molina. what posey did in 2 seasons of play is more than all of molina career
as a mets fan, i hate the dude for crushing my heart in 06. but i swear, he's one of the best catchers i've ever seen play and can control a game like i've truly never seen
well see at the end of the year, like how posey went on a monster tear after the allstar break to edge molina out for mvp, posey last year. this last month is batting 360. compared to molina 290. same thing happen last year when he beat molina out.
Pop time to 2nd: 1.67 Pop time to 3rd: 1.49 Pop time to 1st: 1.52 Pop time to 1st from knees: 1.32 Only took the times once but thats impressive holy shit. His slow mo poptime is 2.9 geez!
Not based on last year... he is without question the best defensive catcher last year and he changed everything at the plate to become an offensive threat,
Look, When its all said and done Yadi absolutely dominates buster in terms of defence and I dont think its as close as people make it seem like. When have you seen Posey pick off a runner like molina does on a regular basis? Posey is a great defensive catcher dont get me wrong but Molina has him by a landslide. P.S. Have you seen the cardinal pitching crumble while he's been out? it's incredible.
I'm a big fan of Yadie, but the best ever was Yogi, with a ring for all 10 fingers. Most people here aren't old enough to remember watching Yogi play, but I am. So trust me
they both have great technique, that's why they're in the bigs. yadier obviously has better technique because throwing from your knees is a pretty tough thing to do. and he makes it look like no problem.
